Comment Re:The only question I have is (Score 2, Informative) 385
It is in fact faster or as fast as chrome in version 4 from a javascript perspective, and it has always run on less ram. So it should be much snappier now.
Equatorial Mounts For Budget Astrophotography? 85
Timoris writes "With the Perseids approaching rapidly, I am looking for a good beginner's motorized equatorial mount for astrophotography. I have seen a few for $150 to $200, but apparently the motor vibrations make for poor photographs. Orion makes good mounts, but are out of my price range ($350) and the motor is sold separately, adding to the price half over again. Does anyone have any good experience with any low- or mid-priced mounts?"
EU Launches Antitrust Investigation Against IBM 135
FlorianMueller writes "The European Commission announced today that it has launched two parallel antitrust investigations into IBM's mainframe practices, following complaints lodged by T3 Technologies last year and French open source startup TurboHercules in March. EU regulators suspect an abuse of a dominant position and illegal tying of IBM's mainframe hardware to its proprietary mainframe operating system z/OS. There's even the possibility of a third case based on a complaint filed very recently by NEON, and the DoJ is also looking into this matter. IBM now finds itself in a situation previously experienced by Microsoft and Intel. This may also affect IBM's credibility when lobbying in the EU for open standards."
Reader coondoggie points out a response from IBM saying that the accusations are being driven by Microsoft and other competitors.
Comment Re:False (Score 1) 366
I totaly agree, I must have AT&T for work and 500$ for a phone just cant cut it
Submission + - X-Ray Burst Blinds NASA Satellite (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: A gamma ray burster temporarily blinded a NASA satellite. The energy was enough to do that from 5 billion light years away.
Submission + - Is Computer Science a Dead End in the Workforce? (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister asks whether the need for advanced development expertise is on the decline in an era in which tools grow increasingly more advanced, and coding increasingly moves offshore. 'Few companies share Google's zeal for academic credentials when hiring new developers. Many are willing to accept self-taught programmers, particularly if they have other skills relevant to the business.' Witness Zoho's homegrown approach to recruitment, in which high school graduates are molded into programmers by way of Zoho's own curriculum. 'Many American employers are trying a similar, ground-up approach to developer education. Rather than hiring new programmers to staff software projects, they recruit internally, often tapping employees with little or no previous coding experience to transition into development roles.' The mixed state of IT education may play a factor here, but all these forces seem to suggest that the demand for computer science education in the job market is on the wane."
Submission + - NASA Hubble spots hot comet-like planet (networkworld.com) 1
coondoggie writes: Is it a planet or a comet? Astronomers are calling a newly explored scorched object a "cometary planet" because it has the components of a planet but with a tail like a comet. Astronomers from the University of Colorado in Boulder using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say the planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space, creating a tail-like appearance.
Submission + - Wayfinder open sourced (vodafone.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Once mobile navigation software pioneer Wayfinder Systems AB, was shut down earlier this year. The Swedish software company was acquired in 2009 by the Vodafone Group, and the source code for the Wayfinder products has now been released under a BSD like license. The code base include features previously unreleased, such as using map data from Open Street Map, and running test clients on Linux.
Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year 183
rocket97 writes "On Wednesday, at the Executives Club of Chicago, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly decided to chat about the relatively near future of the mobile landscape as he sees it — which, in part, includes the ultimate demise of mobile computers in favor of highly-capable smartphones. This being his vision, Jha discussed Motorola's plans for a smartphone with a 2GHz processor — by the end of this year. While Jha did not want to divulge any further information, Conceivably Tech cites another anonymous Motorola executive who was a little more chatty, talking up a device intended to 'incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smartphone today.'"
